Election Of October Research Articles

Dyskursywna ewolucja wyrażenia "dobra zmiana"

The main objective of the presented paper is to provide an overview of references to the term good change (Polish: dobra zmiana) in the context of its discoursive evolution. The expression was first introduced into the Polish discourse during the parliamentary campaign of the Law and Justice party (PiS) before the election of October 25, 2015. In the periods following its introduction — during the first year of the Law and Justice government (10.26.2015–10.26.2016), and after one year until now (10.27.2016–6.09.2017) — the phrase has gained new meaning. The analysis is based on fifty examples of the usage of the expression good change featured in various articles published online. Nevertheless, apart from online articles — which constitute the majority of the analyzed material — the paper includes also entries on TV channels’ or news agencies’ webportals, and anecdotal uses.

Voting for secular parties in the Middle East: evidence from the 2014 general elections in post-revolutionary Tunisia

ABSTRACTArab uprisings paved the way for democratic elections in the Middle East and North Africa region. Yet countries in this region, except for Tunisia, were not able to maintain further democratisation. Tunisia, regardless of economic turbulence and security problems, managed to hold its second parliamentary elections in October 2014, and Ennahda, the party of the popular Islamist movement, could not keep mass support. A large number of studies have examined the rise of the Islamist parties as their electoral success in the post-Arab Uprisings elections by focusing on their organisational strength as well as their social services. However, the social basis of secular parties in the region has been overlooked in the democratisation literature. In this study, four competing arguments, religious–secularism cleavage, nostalgia for the old regime, negative campaign targeting Islamists, and retrospective voting, are considered as the key determinants of citizens’ party choices. By using original election survey data, this study asserts that secular Nidaa Tounes derived its support from secular people, who, at the same time, sympathised with the old regime and disfavoured Islamists.

Izvori informiranja o politici kao moderatori postizbornih očekivanja građana: parlamentarni izbori 2016.

The study aims to show how sources of information about politics and political parties affect citizens’ post-electoral expectations. The theoretical framework is from the agenda- -setting theory, which postulates that the media influence what we think about. Based on a survey conducted on a representative sample of Croatia's citizens after the parliamentary elections in September and October 2016, the study indicates that citizens' expectations regarding the activities of the state are divided into three groups, which can also be linked to political values or worldviews: the social (welfare) state, the fortress state, and the inclusive state. The results show no positive relationships between media information sources and post-electoral expectations. Negative relationships are confirmed for the internet news sites and the post-election expectations of the fortress state, which is positively related to being informed in the family. The results speak about the early stages of political communication and political information practices in Croatia with the prevalence of television as the media source. The findings point to a limited agenda-setting effect as well as the need for modifying the research design in line with a mediatized environment and predominant use of cross-media practices.

Canada moves to update environmental protection regulations

The Canadian government has renewed its pledge to strengthen the way it regulates harmful substances, but legislative changes are unlikely before the next federal election in October 2019. Last year, the House of Commons environment committee urged substantial changes to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which is designed to protect human and environmental health through regulations around chemical management and air pollution. In a June 29 follow-up report, Canada’s minister for environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, said that the Trudeau administration agrees with many of the committee’s recommendations. Those recommendations include reversing the burden of proof onto industry for demonstrating the safety of “substances of very high concern,” similar to Europe’s REACH program. The government will consult with “industry, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and others” to update the legislation, McKenna said. In the meantime, the government is working to make changes that don’t require legislation. For example, it is

Menilik Kemajuan Ekonomi Brazil Tahun 2000-2010

This research aims to analysis Brazil’s economic development and its factors during 2000 to 2010 periods. Since countries in Latin America got revolution from new left wings included Brazil, after several turbulent decades the political and economy become stable and grow. Particularly in Brazil, in economy sector there was sustained growth and make Brazil’s economy as the largest in South America, added by good governance and good leadership from last three presidents there was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff (elected in general election in October 2010). As the evidence is Brazil’s economy resist from global crisis in 2007 to 2008. The conclusion regarding Brazil phenomena as the positive path, where leadership, good governance, foreign factors and political situation influence each other to build a good economy stability.

Living, Doing, and Learning from Politics in a Youth Wing of a Political Party

The field of civic and political participation has been studied mostly from individual, psychological approaches rather than collective, relational perspectives. Here we address this gap through a political ethnography in the youth wing of a major Portuguese political party, conducted during the fervent months right before and after the Portuguese parliamentary elections of October 2015. Investigating the meaning-making of doing politics in real-life contexts, we assess the collective learning processes involved in political participation. This paper shows that youth wings can provide quality participation experiences. Indeed, collectively envisioning and constructing a more democratic society and working for the public good are guiding principles of the wing. Debatement politics and pedagogical politics thus play a fundamental role in the wing's activity, even if they are accompanied by the more mundane, festive party politics and the backstage politics. Through their activity, the wing's members acquire and display high levels of political efficacy, critical thinking and effort regulation regarding political involvement. Methodologically, this paper shows that ethnography is well equipped to study the experience of participation, foregrounding activities and perceptions of wing's members in order to make sense of their learning processes and outcomes.

ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ СТАБИЛЬНОСТЬ ПО-ГРУЗИНСКИ

The article analyzes political processes in Georgia, the dynamics of its political system, the role of Bidzina Ivanishvili as an “informal leader of the country.” Stepping into the shade, Ivanishvili remains the most influential and powerful person in Georgia, which without any serious loss allowed him to clear the coalition “Georgian Dream” of former political allies who became a burden to it. The research examines the process of its reformatting from a motley coalition into a political party controlled by one leader, as well as conditions that resulted in the victory of the ruling party (“Georgian Dream”) at parliamentary elections in October 2016, and the split of the main opposition force – the “United National Movement”. The main task of the ruling party and the ruling elite after the victory is the adoption of a new Constitution changing the electoral system and the President election system. In these circumstances, the dialogue with Russia having distinct “red lines” was put into cold storage. Some kind of normalization was achieved in 2012–2015 by stimulating the activation of economic contacts between Russia and Georgia. In the near future, there is no reason to expect any positive changes in bilateral relations. Furthermore, the socio-economic situation in Georgia is rather unstable, which is associated with devaluation of the lari, high fiscal deficit, lack of economic growth, high dependence of the Georgian economy on external factors, growth of external debt. A positive factor is the tourism boom, in particular owing to Russian tourists. Within the last three years, a huge tourist flow actually covered Georgia, with unprecedented numbers compared to the whole previous post-Soviet period. It is evident, however, that political stability achieved at the moment is fragile and temporary. In addition, there is public demand for the emergence of a “third force”. In this context, even the least important incident can play the role of a detonator.&nbsp

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Indispensable Partner or Significant Other? German and French Media Portrayals of Poland after 25 Years of Weimar Triangle

With the intention of the German, French and Polish foreign ministers to bring their countries closer together after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Weimar Triangle was founded in 1991. This setting has enabled an institutionalised regional cooperation on the governmental level as well as between the respective civil societies. However today, in a Europe of permanent crises and protracted uncertainty, a risky divergence between Germany, France and Poland seems to emerge. Since the Polish national elections in October 2015 has brought the right‑wing, nationalist Law‑and‑Justice‑party (PiS) into power, we are also witnessing a rising relevance of domestic political determinants for mutual contacts. Facing this new period of tension, where more closeness and trust would be required, discursive attitudes and strategies of ‘othering’ might gain ground and lead to increasing alienation. Based on the assumption that the portrayal of a country could be both the first step towards creating and obtaining a more inclusive or exclusive identity, this paper aims to find out the following: in how far are German and French media about to pre‑cook patterns of asymmetry and alienation? Or follow they rather an inclusive and comprehensible approach towards Poland? These questions are exemplified by the biggest centre‑left and centre‑right German and French daily newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Le Monde and Le Figaro, whereas the corpus of data is limited to the period of the year 2016. By making use of the critical discourse analysis, this paper provides information about to what extent Poland is considered to be a close and indispensable partner as well as to where we can identify mechanisms of putting the country aside as a significant other.

Wpływ kampanii politycznej w mediach społecznościowych na zachowania wyborcze młodych Polaków

Niniejsza praca jest próbą analizy oddziaływania praktyk komunikacyjnych w mediach społecznościowych prowadzonych przez ugrupowania polityczne i ich wpływu na motywacje i zachowania wyborcze pokolenia Y. Artykuł powstał w oparciu o wyniki badania „Wybory z perspektywy młodych” przeprowadzonego w październiku 2015 r. przez agencję Odyseja Public Relations przy współpracy z Mobile Institute i Brand24. Badanie zrealizowano metodą CAPI na próbie 1341 polskich internautów powyżej 15. roku życia.

Gender Trouble in Poland

In the Polish parliamentary elections of October 2015, the right-wing Law and Justice party won enough seats that, for the first time since the fall of communism, Poland is being governed by one party alone. The new government has acted swiftly, aggressively attacking feminists, “the homosexual lobby,” and the liberal values of a threatening West. In response to this new level of mobilization against any and all feminist ideas and values, the Network of East-West Women (NEWW), an international feminist organization connecting and developing support among feminists in post-communist countries and the United States, has gathered to discuss ways to fight back. At the moment, Poland has Law and Justice; the United States has Trump. Recognizing the parallels and together crafting possible responses is one kind of internationalism that feels urgent now.

International security in the election programmes of Civic Platform between 2001 and 2015

The purpose of this article is to present and attempt to assess the implementation of security policy of Civic Platform submitted in its election programs since the first start in the parliamentary elections of this formation until the general election in October of 2015. There will be analyzed primarily in this article the manifestos prepared for the parliamentary elections because they contain much more contents about the security than the programmes prepared before the voting to the European Parliament.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HUGO CH VES’S SOCIAL POLICY (2007–2011)

Abstract: During the years of 2007–2011 Venezuela’s government continued the battle with poverty and unemployment, growing nutritional and housing deficit. Also some measures have been adopted to make education and health service more accessible for the population of the country. Thus the government activity in the sphere of social politics has had fragmented character and has been recepient-oriented to achieve shortterm effects to win presidential elections in October 2012.

Mosley and British Politics 1918-32. Oswald’s Odyssey.By David Howell.

There is no shortage of studies of Sir Oswald Mosley’s politics. Indeed more books, articles and essays have been written about him than about most cabinet ministers, and even most prime ministers. Given the perennial interest in ‘political extremism’, it is perhaps understandable that an abundance of studies exists and continues to appear for Mosley’s period as leader of the British Union of Fascists from 1932. But numerous studies have also commented on his earlier political career, and these have not been concerned simply to locate the sources of his fascism. Beginning in the 1960s with still useful articles by W.F. Mandle (not listed in the bibliography of this book) and more especially with Robert Skidelsky’s pioneering book on the second Labour government from 1929 to 1931, there has been much interest in Mosley’s fertile production of what might be termed ‘proto-Keynesian’ policies for reducing unemployment, his corporatist plans for institutional reform and economic reconstruction, and his imaginative attitudes towards the party-political system. His movement from military service to election as a Conservative MP in 1918, flirtation with the Liberal party and passage through the Labour party on the way to fascism has attracted the attention of those studying the restlessness of the ‘war generation’ of ‘young’ politicians. His period as a Labour minister from June 1929, his resignation in May 1930, his creation of a ‘New Party’ in March 1931 and its electoral obliteration in the general election of October 1931 has been traversed in numerous studies (including this reviewer’s) of the agonies of the Labour government and the drama of the creation and perpetuation of the National coalition government. Matthew Worley has recently published as many as four articles, a special journal issue with nine contributors, and a monograph on the 9-month span of the New Party. So what can be added about Mosley’s pre-fascist career?

Political competition and environmental reporting

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between “political competition” and “environmental reporting” by New Zealand local governments. Design/methodology/approach – The research method includes a longitudinal analysis of environmental reporting by New Zealand local governments in their annual reports for the financial years 2005-2006 to 2009-2010. “Content analysis” was used to attach scores to the extent of environmental reporting. The “number of candidates divided by the number of available positions at the previous election” was used as the proxy for “political competition”. Findings – The study reports a positive relationship between “political competition” and “environmental reporting” in 2007-2008. The number of local governments reporting voluntary environmental information increased in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 compared to 2005-2006, followed by a reduction in such numbers following the 2007-2008 financial year. This trend in disclosure can be attributed to the local government elections in October 2007. This finding is consistent with the expectation of “agency theory” and provides insight into the pattern of perceived agency costs. The study also finds a dearth in reporting “monetary” and “bad” news. Originality/value – The study contributes towards the previous literature on environmental reporting by concentrating on the public sector and New Zealand, together with investigating the relationship of such reporting with “political competition” through a longitudinal analysis. The theoretical contribution of this study is the adoption of “agency theory” in the context of public sector voluntary reporting and investigating the significance attached by agents to environmental reporting to minimise agency cost. The practical contribution of the study is in the area of future development of reporting standards in regards to environmental reporting.

La caída de la Alianza. Neoliberalismo, conflicto social y crisis política en Argentina

El articulo aborda la crisis politica de 1999-2001 en Argentina, bajo el Gobierno de la Alianza, que sucedio al Partido Justicialista tras la introduccion de las reformas neoliberales en los novent...

Las elecciones de 2014 en Brasil: un análisis coyuntural del rendimiento de los partidos a nivel subnacional

Unlike what happens in the presidential elections in Brazil, where the PT and the PSDB alternate in competition for the presidency, subnational elections have shown a different dynamic over time, even different from that of national political. Therefore, this article tries to sketch out the scenario and dynamics of political parties at the subnational level in Brazil in the last elections of October 2014. To do so, an attempt is made to analyze the outcome of elections for governor of the States and the Federal District, in addition to observing the composition of state legislature seats, taking the framework of parties as the basis of the explanation.

Cartooning and the Democratic Transition in Tunisia

Cartooning and the Democratic Transition in Tunisia

The Political Resurrection of Russian Governors

Elections for all 83 Russian governors were reinstated in Russia in 2012, seven years after they had been suspended. The democratic reform coincided with renewed political activism in Russia since December 2011, but the reform was as much a belated recognition of the shortcomings and failures from appointing Russian governors. Pragmatic necessity and not democratic conversion was the determining factor. Based on the first elections in October 2012, the reform will have only a limited effect over the next few years on democratic change in Russia, at most placating liberal and regional demands while consolidating personal rule under Putin.

Healthcare financing reform in Latvia: Switching from social health insurance to NHS and back?

In the 1990s, Latvia aimed at introducing Social Health Insurance (SHI) but later changed to a National Health Service (NHS) type system. The NHS is financed from general taxation, provides coverage to the entire population, and pays for a basic service package purchased from independent public and private providers. In November 2013, the Cabinet of Ministers passed a draft Healthcare Financing Law, aiming at increasing public expenditures on health by introducing Compulsory Health Insurance (CHI) and linking entitlement to health services to the payment of income tax. Opponents of the reform argue that linking entitlement to health services to the payment of income tax does not have the potential to increase public expenditures on health but that it can contribute to compromising universal coverage and access to health services of certain population groups. In view of strong opposition, it is unlikely that the law will be adopted before parliamentary elections in October 2014. Nevertheless, the discussion around the law is interesting because of three main reasons: (1) it can illustrate why the concept of SHI remains attractive – not only for Latvia but also for other countries, (2) it shows that a change from NHS to SHI does not imply major institutional reforms, and (3) it demonstrates the potential problems of introducing SHI, i.e. of linking entitlement to health services to the payment of contributions.